 THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like...  The British Female Poets - Page 229by George Washington Bethune - 1848 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 204 pages
...Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that Jit the- battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. 2. Yet beautiful and bright he stood As born to rule...creature of heroic blood, A proud, though childlike form. 3. The flames rolled on — he would not go Without his father's word ; That father, faint in death... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1853 - 456 pages
...buf him had fled ; \ The flame thai lit the battle's wrecA, 1 Shone round Aim o'er the dead. | Yei beautiful and bright he stood, \ As born to rule the...; ! A creature of heroic blood, | A proud, though child-liAe form. I The flames roll'd on — i he would not go, ' Without Ais father's word;] Thai father,... | |
 | 1854 - 576 pages
...uhamloned : and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flame! had reached the powder. Tits boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but he had...of heroic blood, a proud, though child-like form. • Speak, Father ! " once again he cried, " if I may yet be gone ! And " — but the booming shots... | |
 | William Russell - 1854 - 398 pages
...or three feet; as in the following example : "The boy stood on the burning deck Whence all but him had fled ; . The flame that lit the battle's wreck,...creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form." A less common form of the iambic stanza is that in which no verse contains more than three iambic feet... | |
 | Caroline Lee Hentz - 1854 - 376 pages
...motives that actuated us. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ. Columbus, Georgia. THE LONG MOSS SPRING. CHAPTER I. " There beautiful and bright he stood — As born to rule...of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form." HEMANS. " HARK 1" exclaimed Warland, rising from his chair and walking with an unsteady step to the... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...stars, and tell yon rising sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God ! COLERIDGE. CASABIANCA. THE boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but he had fled; The flame that lit the battle wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1854 - 386 pages
...flame that 1H the battle's wreck Shone round him on the dead. Yet beautiful and bright he stood, A* born to rule the storm ; A creature of heroic blood. A proud, though child-like form. The flames roll'd on— he would not go Without his father's word ; 64. Such was the battle of the Nfle, for which... | |
 | Caroline Lee Hentz - 1852 - 300 pages
..."COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE," "THB PLANTER'S NORTHERN RRIDE," "BANISHED BON/ ' "There beautiful and bright he As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud, though child-like form." — Hemans. "She had hair as deeply black As the cloud of thunder; She had browa so beautiful And dark... | |
 | 1854 - 504 pages
...and at the height of human fame. CASABIANCA.* The boy otood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flame that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead. • Young Caaabtanea, a boy about thirteen yeara old, son to .In- admiral of the Orient, remained at... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 pages
...couple of hours, they returned to their occupation. Blackwood's Magazine. LXXXVIII. — CASABIANCA.* 1. THE boy stood on the burning deck, whence all but...creature of heroic blood, a proud though child-like form ! 2. The flames rolled on — he would not go without his father 's word ; That father, faint in death... | |
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